I want to change my tab bar items to be pink when selected instead of the default blue.
How can i accomplish this using the storyboard editor in Xcode 6?
Here are my current setting which are not working, the blue background works but the pink doesnt work:
This elegant solution works great on SWIFT 3.0, SWIFT 4.2 and SWIFT 5.1:
On the Storyboard:
Edit: Working with Xcode 8/10, for iOS 10/12 and above.
In Swift, using xcode 7 (and later), you can add the following to your AppDelegate.swift file:
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
This is the what the complete method looks like:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// I added this line
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
return true
}
In the example above my item will be white. The "/255.0" is needed because it expects a value from 0 to 1. For white, I could have just used 1. But for other color you'll probably be using RGB values.
Swift 3 | Xcode 10
If you want to make all tab bar items the same color (selected & unselected)...
Step 1
Make sure your image assets are setup to Render As = Template Image. This allows them to inherit color.
Step 2
Use the storyboard editor to change your tab bar settings as follows:
Step 3
Steps 1 & 2 will change the color for the selected icon. If you still want to change the color of the unselected items, you need to do it in code. I haven't found a way to do it via the storyboard editor.
Create a custom tab bar controller class...
// TabBarController.swift
class TabBarController: UITabBarController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
// make unselected icons white
self.tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.white
}
}
... and assign the custom class to your tab bar scene controller.
If you figure out how to change the unselected icon color via the storyboard editor please let me know. Thanks!
You can change colors UITabBarItem by storyboard but if you want to change colors by code it's very easy:
// Use this for change color of selected bar
[[UITabBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]];
// This for change unselected bar (iOS 10)
[[UITabBar appearance] setUnselectedItemTintColor:[UIColor yellowColor]];
// And this line for change color of all tabbar
[[UITabBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
This is the solution in Swift 3 that works in iOS 10:
Firstly, you create your own tab bar controller subclass and add it to your tab controller in your storyboard. In the viewDidLoad() method you can then customize the tab bar. It should be stated here that the tintColor attribute of the tabBar represents the color of the selected item not the color of the unselected ones! In order to change the color of the unselected items, I recommend looping through each item and use the original colors of your images, so they are not rendered as grey automatically.
class CustomTabBarVC: UITabBarController
{
override func viewDidLoad()
{
super.viewDidLoad()
self.tabBar.tintColor = AppColor.normalRed
self.tabBar.barTintColor = .white
self.tabBar.isTranslucent = true
if let items = self.tabBar.items
{
for item in items
{
if let image = item.image
{
item.image = image.withRenderingMode( .alwaysOriginal )
}
}
}
}
}
The only downside with this approach is that your item images must already have the desired color you aim for.
